The Causes and Treatment of Baldness
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as parasitic in origin. They say that thinning of the hair, whether general or beginning on the crown or at the temples and forehead (alopecia pityrodes), can be produced by a microorganism. Seborrhoea oleosa is generally admitted to be at times physiological, but who is to say when the physiological limit ends. The only connection that seborrhoea oleosa has with disease of the skin is that it might form a culture-bed for
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